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Re: Require GNU make?
- From: Tom Tromey <tromey at redhat dot com>
- To: Pedro Alves <palves at redhat dot com>
- Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com>, binutils at sourceware dot org
- Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2014 12:32:49 -0600
- Subject: Re: Require GNU make?
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>>>>> "Pedro" == Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com> writes:
Pedro> I was kind of hoping binutils would start requiring it, so
Pedro> we could use it as excuse for GDB to require it as well. :-)
FWIW, to do actual development on gdb, you pretty much need GNU make --
dependency tracking only works with GNU make.
I think the argument for Makefile portability was pretty strong 15 years
ago, but isn't very important now. I'm in favor of switching.
Tom